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2020 |
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2019 |
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abstract |
Although the organic conversion process has been much studied, farm-level transitions
to agroecosystems are less well understood. What transition pathways do they take?
How can (or does) farmers’ learning help to make such changes? What support measures
can (or do) facilitate such learning? To answer such questions, a UK study identified
farmers undergoing an agroecological transition and compared their practices with
two prevalent models. As regards the Efficiency – Substitution – Redesign (ESR) model,
our case-study farms had all three changes, but they were rarely sequential; agroecosystem
redesign did not follow from Efficiency or Substitution measures, which readily provide
endpoints rather than transitional stages. As regards the ‘trigger events’ model –
Trigger, Active Assessment and Implementation – the three stages were often overlapping;
triggers arose only when farmers’ interpreted difficulties or opportunities as grounds
to implement changes, which they had generally considered beforehand. More fundamentally,
case-study farmers were unlearning conventional expectations by undergoing cognitive
and affective shifts. Together those two models (ESR and trigger events) can provide
heuristic devices for identifying farmers’ agroecological trajectories in their diverse
forms. Going further, better models of farmers’ learning and action will be necessary
for facilitating agroecological transitions and guiding relevant support measures. |
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2 |
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published |
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peerReviewed |
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44 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Padel, Susanne; Levidow, Les and Pearce, Bruce (2019). UK farmers’ transition
pathways towards agroecological farm redesign: evaluating explanatory models. Agroecology
and Sustainable Food Systems (Early Access). |
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label |
Padel, Susanne; Levidow, Les and Pearce, Bruce (2020). UK farmers’ transition pathways
towards agroecological farm redesign: evaluating explanatory models. Agroecology
and Sustainable Food Systems, 44(2) pp. 139–163. |
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Title |
UK farmers’ transition pathways towards agroecological farm redesign: evaluating explanatory
models |
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oro |